Software Engineer, Cloud Computer

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About the Team

The Browser Use team builds technology that enables agents to interact with browsers across OpenAI products. The work spans infrastructure, tooling, and user experiences on users’ devices and in the cloud. The team partners with research to improve models’ browser-use capabilities and with web standards bodies to shape how agents interact with the web.

Products include ChatGPT for Chrome, the ChatGPT in-app browser, and the cloud computer used in Dots and ChatGPT Work.

About the Role

The role focuses on building and scaling cloud computer infrastructure so that users can access an agent with its own computer in the cloud. Responsibilities include solving problems involving authentication, user takeover, and enterprise network access, while owning the systems that provision, run, and manage agent environments.

This role combines infrastructure expertise with attention to user experience. The engineer will work with research and engineering teams to bring new computer-use capabilities into production across container orchestration, backend services, and product experiences.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale infrastructure for running agent-controlled browsers and computers in the cloud.
• Develop services for provisioning environments, managing sessions, and coordinating their lifecycle.
• Improve reliability, performance, resource utilization, and observability across the fleet.
• Diagnose issues across Linux, containers, networking, and browser execution.
• Build APIs and tooling that make cloud computers easy for research and product teams to use.
• Work closely with research to understand emerging requirements and improve computer use.
• Develop authentication, credential management, and network access controls that protect user data and support interactions with websites and services.

Requirements

• Experience leading large-scale backend, platform, or infrastructure projects from ambiguous problem statements to production systems.
• Proficiency in one or more backend languages, such as Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, or similar, with the ability to work across service, platform, and product boundaries.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production reliability.
• Ability to own systems from initial design through deployment and scale.
• Comfort working at a fast-moving pace while maintaining a focus on security and operational excellence.
• Experience with browser automation, remote computing environments, or infrastructure for AI agents is especially relevant.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.